IELTS Speaking for Success - 👴🏻 Age and life stages (Part 1) + Transcript

Episode Date: June 8, 2026

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FBI, just don't get in touch, okay? No, McDonald's, Nike, you're welcome. FBI, I'm not sure. And Rory, you're looking very well today, given your age. Thank you. It's a good stage of life to be at. Hmm, is it? Shall we talk about life stages?

Yeah. Life stages. Yes, dear, listen, age, life, life stages is the topic. You know, how old are you? Are you happy with your life? A strange topic, I think. It is very unusual. I don't know about this one. Do you enjoy your age now? Most of the time, yes. I've achieved just about everything I wanted to in life. And I'm quite happy with how things are at the moment. And the future seems quite bright, so yeah, it's a good time to be alive. Do you have any plans for the next five years? Nothing terribly serious. No, I just like things to keep taking over as they are for the time being.

What do you think is the most important thing in life at the moment? Hmm, well, probably keeping things as balanced as possible. Obviously, I have to keep working, but I have to keep working, but I have to have to enjoy life at the same time. What did you often do with your friends in your childhood? I can't really remember that far back. But I suppose it must have been the usual things like playing video games and hanging out together. This episode is brought to you by Activia.

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As you know, we now release all of our premium content for free and it's available for one month. After one month, it goes into our super secret archive. To sign up for the archive, click the link in the description below. See you soon. Right, dear, listen, are you happy with this topic, you know, like life stages? A good idea is to say something positive, right? Even if you are depressed and sad and you feel old, stay positive because we want something positive for the examiner.

And if you start saying that, oh, I'm depressed, I don't like my age, I feel old. The examiner starts crying, you start crying. Like, is it a good thing to do? I don't know, Rory. What do you reckon? Well, probably not crying, no. Otherwise, you'll just have to sit out your examiner until the examiner can find someone replacement to help you. Yeah, because like stay positive and lie, right?

Don't say, oh, I feel old. However, it occurs to me that my answers might not necessarily be the most helpful. So stick around until the end and we'll talk about what to say if you are younger or if you are less satisfied with your life. So you can say, I'm happy with my age.

Or most of the time. Most of the time. Yeah. I've achieved everything I wanted. I have achieved. So here, present perfect, dear listener, because you are alive, right? Hopefully happy. So I've done this.

I've achieved this. I've done out of things. Or I will do. Right? So I've achieved some things I want or I want it. And I have. I have a lot of plans for my future. I'm quite happy with how things are at the moment.

Like, I'm happy, I'm quite happy with how things are now. And the future. The future is bright. That just means the future is positive. Positive, yeah. And, Rory, do I use an article? Do you see, like, I've got a bright future ahead of me? It could be, yeah.

My future seems bright. So it looks like my future will be positive, will be bright. So yay. And it's good to be alive. I'm happy to be alive. Yeah, even if you're, you know, like 60 years old and you take IOTs for some reason, you're like, I'm happy to be alive. Yay.

I have a lot of plans for the future. And here we can say, like, I'm planning to travel around the world. You can lie, do you listen, right? I'm planning to do something I'm planning to buy a new car or I'm going to I'm going to buy a new house You could talk about what you're planning to do

after you get your IELTS result So you could say I'm going to university Or I'm going to emigrate to another country Or I'm going to work on building a life or career Or getting a degree Or just a random plan Like oh I'm planning to get a dog

a corgi Android you've used a phrase of verb tick over yes so if things keep ticking over the whole expression is tick keep ticking over then that just means they keep going as normal yeah

keep something ticking over it continues to work but with little progress so we kind of we keep things as they are so they're just going with small like little progress I'll keep things ticking over in the office.

So it's going, but not, you know, progressing much. But it's going. It's just going. And my life is ticking over. Or for example, like, are you happy with your age now? Like, you know, I'm happy for the time being. Like, for the time being, for now. Like, now I'm happy.

I'm happy for the time being. It's such a strange topic though, yeah? It is, yeah. I'm not so sure about this. It's very strange, yes. How old are you? You know, I'm happy. But actually the examiner doesn't ask how old you are.

Like, yes, let's talk about age. How old are you? You know, where do you live? What's your passport number? Give me that number of your card. What's the code? However, they will want to know certain things about your age, including what is important. So for me, the most important thing in life is being balanced.

However, for you, it's probably something like, finishing your IELTS exam or getting your IELTS result. So you could say getting your IELTS test done and dusted was a good mark so that you can move on would be helpful. So if something is done and dusted, what is it, Maria? It's done, it's completed to get something done and dusted, yeah. It's an idiom. Actually, like, UK, so British English, informal. So, for example, like, this deal is done and dusted. So it's completed, it's finished, yeah. You get your IELTS result.

And you say, well, it's done and dust it. And the most important thing at the moment is my English, is my family. I don't know. Just, you know, or just keeping things as balanced as possible. Right. To have a balance in life is the most important thing. Maybe for you, it's, I don't know, your dog, your family, your English, your career, your, I don't know, your health.

Like, what should be the most important thing in life? well la la questions I think you know your health yeah or your family your life yeah but if you don't have your health you got nothing

exactly yeah so family career is not important right okay I'm Googling I'm googling what does Google say oh like Google thinks it's kindness oh that's sweet oh yeah oh no no no okay the most important thing in people's life health all right.

Meaningful relationship and time. Oh. Yeah, health, physical and mental is like number one. There you go. Yeah, career addict.com also thinks that health is the most important thing in life. All right. Now you know, dear listener, that your health is the most important thing in life. So to stay healthy and just enjoying life, you know, staying healthy and enjoying life at the same time.

When I was a child, I used to play video games, right? So I used to, not anymore. You did something in the past, but not now. So I used to play video games. I used to hang out with my friends, just to have fun with my friends. Yeah, and what are alternative answers for younger people? If you're young and happy, or if you're young and unhappy, Roy, what can we say? Well, I think younger people could talk about, for the first question, if they enjoy their age now,

They could say they can't wait to be older so they can do more things and have more experience and independence. And even if you are the same age as me, but you're not happy with your life, you could also say, I can't wait to do something as well. Like, I can't wait to have my IELT test finished and get my results and move on with my life and have more fun. So all of these things are possible too. Yes, I can't wait to do something. I'm looking forward to getting old. Maybe not old, older. Yeah.

And do listen, if you start talking about, you know, like, if you start talking about, you know, like, I'm sad, I don't want to get old, you know, you can crack a joke. Yes, you can make a joke about age. And the examiner will appreciate the humor. All right. So you can kind of like, if the examiner asks you, like, oh, right. So do you enjoy your age now? You say, yeah, okay, I'm quite. happy with my age now. And you know, what goes up but never comes down your age?

That is very true. That's not even a joke. Yeah, so like what goes up, you know, goes up, but never comes down your age. So your age only goes up. It doesn't come down, unfortunately. So you can say like, oh, you know, like what goes up but never comes down your age so what can I do nothing I can just enjoy it you know I can be miserable about it or I can just enjoy it it's better to just enjoy life yeah we take a philosophical approach to age and Roy what are like a typical age stages so well this is the funny thing it seems to vary massively but I think the main ones are being a child being a young adult or a teenager and then progressing into your 30s and then middle age.

Wow, wow, wow, from teenage to your 30s? What about like mid-20s? Well, I don't know. I think that counts as being a young adult, doesn't it? Oh, okay, all right. Okay, yeah, I can see like people in their mid-20s. So something like 24, 25. Okay, okay, young adult, all right.

And then middle-aged. What is like middle-age? Well, I think that's between like 40 and 50. slash 60. Then you enter older age and you become a pensioner, basically, I think. Or you're a pension age, not necessarily a pensioner. Yeah, like middle age is like from 40 to like 65 or something. And we can call it like a lifespan. The time of a person's life. Lifespan. That's a nice word. You can use it in an essay actually. And it's C2. It is. La la la, la, it's C2. Yeah. So, So a lifespan, one word, the length of time for which a person, animal or thing exists.

So for example, a lifespan of around 70 years. So on average, people's lifespan is about 70 years. 75, maybe? 75, 85. I don't know. A long time. How long would you like to be alive? I have no idea. It's like if I'm 90

That's old Like 90 No it's interesting to live up to like 100 And it kind of like When people ask you Oh how old are you I'm 100 you know And people are whoa whoa

You know And you just go everywhere And you're 100 years old You're kind of like a treasure Can you imagine A national treasure Yeah And people just go whoa

And actually you're proud To say that you are 100 It's funny. Remember when you were younger and being like 30 was perceived as old age and now here we are talking about being 100. Yeah. And what do you call these people who live up to like 100, 120? Centarians, I think. What? I think they're called centarians. Cent is like 100. Long lived. And actually, Jean Calmont, a French person lived till like he died when he was 122 years old. Oh, wow.

Oh, maybe it was a she, sorry. Oh, yeah, she, sorry. Sorry, Sean. Marshan. So, she had a documented lifespan of 122 years old. It's a long time to be alive. And she drank wine. What a queen.

A lot, a lot of wine. All right. Rydell listener, thank you very much for listening. We'll get back to you with the New episodes. Stay with us. Keep in touch. Bye. Bye. day sale, 72 hours of savings. Shot now at performance.ca. 3day sale.

Driven by Performance Auto Group. Do you enjoy your age now? Most of the time, yes. I've achieved just about everything I wanted to in life. And I'm quite happy with how things are at the moment. And the future seems quite bright. So, yeah, it's a good time to be alive. Do you have any plans for the next five years?

Um, nothing terribly serious. No. I just like things to keep taking over as they are for the time being. What do you think is the most important thing in life at the moment? Hmm, well, probably keeping things as balanced as possible. Obviously, I have to keep working, but I have to enjoy life at the same time. What did you often do with your friends in your childhood? I can't really remember that far back.

But I suppose it must have been the usual things like playing video games and hanging out together.